Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.

If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.

In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

Live, for this is the time of your life.

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.